Drama as illicit drink partakers assault officer, robe firearm during operation in Molo, Nakuru County
Detectives based in Molo town in Nakuru County have launched an operation to recover a firearm stolen from a police officer during a security swoop in one of the illicit drink dens.
The stolen Ceska pistol loaded with 15 rounds of 9 mm caliber is yet to be recovered.
The officers had raided Mtaa wa Saba area in Tayari Sub-location, a notorious illicit brews and drugs trafficking village that is said to harbour Molo’s most dangerous criminals.
“The area commonly known as Wa Saba, the densely populated settlement neighbours the marshy shores of a dam that collects its waters from a nearby forest, where the brew is distilled in a makeshift distillery along Molo river before finding its way to Mtaa wa Saba.” A notification by the Directorate of Criminal Investigation (DCI) reads in part.
During the operation, the officers who had arrived on a motorbike posing as revelers arrested one Cyrus Luvekho aged 44 who was found administering the lethal drink to groups of youths.
However, as the officers waited for the station vehicle to pick them up, the intoxicated youths reportedly became rowdy and began hurling projectiles at them demanding for the release of the suspect to continue serving them.
“The commotion attracted the attention of the entire settlement as locals converged at the scene in droves, to catch a glimpse of what was happening. The officers, who had not figured to finding themselves in such an awkward position struggled to secure the suspect, the 18 litres of brew they had recovered from him and contain the rowdy mob that was baying for their blood,” the statement by DCI further read.
An accomplice to the suspect was however arrested and over 40 litres of illicit brew, rolls of cannabis sativa and property suspected to have been stolen were recovered from her house.
